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单词 adonis
释义
adonis
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n

An adonis is a very handsome man, especially a young one. You might secretly think of your good-looking neighbor as "a young adonis."
You'll most commonly see this word capitalized: Adonis, though if you're using it to mean "handsome guy," it's okay to use a lower-case a. Its origin is the god Adonis, in Greek mythology the eternally youthful god of beauty and desire. When you call someone an adonis, there's an implication that he's a bit vain about his good looks: "He knows he's the adonis of the family."
WORD FAMILY
adonis
USAGE EXAMPLES
“The adonis amurensis did not want to open all day for shock.”
New York Times(Mar 14, 2014)
The primula is thus spoken of, on account of its yellow centre, also the adonis, or “pheasant’s eye,” and the blue veronica, or germander speedwell.
Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2010)
He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards.
Lubbock, Percy, A Book of English Prose—Part II, Ar...(2010)
n any handsome young man
Hyper
adult male, man
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
Adonis
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WORD FAMILY
Adonis: Adonises
USAGE EXAMPLES
They evoked images of Greek gods such as Adonis, Aphrodite - and, of course, Apollo.
Reuters(Dec 22, 2016)
Adonis Filer came off the bench to lead the Owls with nine points.
Washington Times(Nov 12, 2016)
He then struck out Adonis Garcia on three pitches and Freeman on four.
Washington Post(Sep 18, 2016)
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n (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone
when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite
Hyper
daemon, demigod
a person who is part mortal and part god
2
n annual or perennial herbs
Syn|Hyper
genus Adonis
magnoliid dicot genus
genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
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